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Course Info for ANTH - 254 - 01, Spring 2026
Class number: 2753 Title: Blood, Sweat, and Tears Department: Anthropology
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 19 Current enrollment: 19 Available seats: 0
Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, MC - 213 Instructor(s): Nadel-Klein, Jane
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Soc Sciences & Identity Power Equity Req
Course Description:
This course takes a cross-cultural look at the ways in which people define work in daily life. Drawing upon diverse sources, including ethnography, fiction, biography and investigative journalism, it will examine the ways in which people labor to make a living and to sustain their households. Students will consider such key questions as: What makes work meaningful? How are occupational communities formed? How is work gendered? How have global forces reshaped the nature of work? How do people experience the lack of work? Examples will be drawn from different work environments, including mining, fishing, agriculture, industry, service work, domestic work and intellectual work.